Filed Under (Hot Tips) by AndiC on June-6-2008

Ever had your desktop stop responding or a message saying that explorer.exe has stopped responding?
Most people restart their computer, this is not always required and can take a while. The solution is to force explorer to stop running and restart it.

This can be don’t through task manager by first pressing ctrl + alt +del clicking on processes and looking for explorer.exe. A Hot tip is to press the ‘e’ key to scroll through all processes beginning with that letter.